So Many Guys In Baseball Overpaid

[jjgold]

It's a disgrace actually
MLB is in a big decline also
Ballparks empty
lack of fan interest

[minet123]

JJ where you live you understand what a nightmare it is to go to a game and the cost before you even get out of the car

[flyingillini]

It depends the City you are talking about JJ. Lots of parks are doing well.

[TheLock]

Major League Baseball will finish this year with just over $6 billion in revenue, according to Bob DuPuy, MLB's president and chief operating officer.


Baseball's sales have increased 50 percent from 2004 and have doubled since 2000, CNN reported. DuPuy said that the level of growth this year had surprised even him and Commissioner Bud Selig.

“We have seen a healthy increase in every one of our revenue streams," DuPuy said. "We saw about a $0.5 billion from sources that really didn't exist 10 years ago."

DuPuy told CNN he expects revenue growth in the single digit percentage range in 2008 and an even bigger jump in revenue in 2009.

[tltaylor89]

How about you give me some SBR Points JJ Gold.

[THE PROFIT]

The Lock, that has to be false. JJ never just posts senseless comments without doing research first

[Doc JS]

The Lock, that has to be false. JJ never just posts senseless comments without doing research first

damn...that is flat out funnny!!!!!

[pavyracer]

It's a disgrace actually
MLB is in a big decline also
Ballparks empty
lack of fan interest

They should deduct from your check every time you make a dumb post. But then you will end up owing them money at the end of the month.

[stealthyburrito]

JJ knows how to time 'em. interleague play is the biggest attendance draw of the regular season.

[jjgold]

Look at empty seats in most ball parks

end of discussion

[Bostongambler]

nesn is down 70% viewership

[mathdotcom]

coach is right

yes red sox still sell out, but look elsewhere

[Unicorn7]

Its sickening to see the $ they make

players are so freakin over rated

baseball as much as any sport is a team sport

thats why the japs kick our ass in international baseball because they play tremendous as a team it does not matter how many mill that monkey at first base earns a year

[gryfyn1]

MLB players receive about 52% of all baseball revenues - NFL players get 59%, NBA 57%, NHL 56% -

In fact it looks more like MLB players are underpaid --

[Andy117]

Look at empty seats in most ball parks

end of discussion

Are you new to baseball?
Attendance is down from the last couple of years but it is up huge from the 80s. Each team has 81 home games in stadiums seating 40K+. They aren't generally gonna draw to the % capacity as other sports. Also April and May are tough for attendance to do colder weather and kids still being in school.

[all_wade]

i agree because your getting paid 100 million dolllars to catch and throw and hit a baseball for 10 years

[Andy117]

i agree because your getting paid 100 million dolllars to catch and throw and hit a baseball for 10 years

Any different than any other athlete? They're all paid tons of money to play games.

[zigomanisinsider]

jj right here

[TheLock]

MLB players receive about 52% of all baseball revenues - NFL players get 59%, NBA 57%, NHL 56% -

In fact it looks more like MLB players are underpaid --

Let's not let facts get in the way of speculation

[Sunde91]

Start with the bum who walked to a live ball the other day and the tard who slammed his glove down on after dropping a live ball.

These guys get paid???

[jjgold]

jj right here

[Chi_archie]

MLB owners are generally doing very very very good

[gryfyn1]

i agree because your getting paid 100 million dolllars to catch and throw and hit a baseball for 10 years

Actually they perform a highly specialized skill of which just a fraction of a percent of the population can do -

[jbrent95]

Are you suggesting that the free market system in baseball should be discarded? It's not really a free market system because of revenue sharing. I don't see too many team owners complaining. They have a very nice cash business when it comes to concessions and parking.

I would like to see baseball consider a system like the European soccer leagues. This would force some teams to spend money on players and development in order to not be relegated to a lower league.

[Scorpion]

so many managers in baseball don't speak english.

[therber2]

It's a disgrace actually
MLB is in a big decline also
Ballparks empty
lack of fan interest

Yeah. Home stands in many cases almost seem irrelevant.
Who do you think has the worst fans. Just watched the D-Backs at home playing the Giants. Hardly anyone there, but enthusiastic fans; highly retarded (cheering when the other guys boot one in) unless that was SFO fans....

[Andy117]

so many managers in baseball don't speak english.

What?

[ExposingLines247]

wah wah they make to much who gives a shit lifes not fair terrible topic

[SamsNCharge99]

not 1 player in any sport is worth $1,000,000

[Grosshhit]

Kerry Wood is one of the highest paid Cleveland Indians. He's off to a good start right?

[gryfyn1]

not 1 player in any sport is worth $1,000,000

Reality contradicts that statement.

[Chi_archie]

not 1 player in any sport is worth $1,000,000

very dumb statement....

the market shows us the reality....


it doesn't make common sense that being good with a bat, or ball, or hockey stick should result in a salary equal to that of 400 school teachers.

but the market it bears it out.

if they didn't bring in alot more revenue as a whole, no one would pay them...

its tough to argue with the realities of the market

[TheLock]

This thread has reached Maximum Dumb Capacity.


Shut er down Willie

[robert_wrath]

Oliver Perez Tops off as one of the top 10 in MLB on this issue. Follow this: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/players...;pageContainer .